Bots are better than humans at cracking ‘Are you a robot?’ Captcha tests, study finds

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Bots are better than humans at cracking ‘Are you a robot?’ Captcha tests, study finds
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We all knew this day would come, now it's just a matter of making different captcha tests to evade these bots

They were never a test to evade bots to begim with, most capchas were used to train machine learning algorithms to train the bots on ! Just because it was manual labour google got it done for free , using this bullshit captcha thingy ! We sort of trained bots to read obsucre texts , and kinda did the labour for corps for free !

I heard Captcha was being used as training data for self-driving cars. Which probably explains why almost all of them ask you to identify cars, motorcycles, bridges, traffic lights, crosswalks etc.

Both are right. The older ones with squiggly letters, numbers or that ask you to identify animals or objects were being used to train ai bots.

The ones that ask for crosswalks, bikes, overpass, signs etc are used to train self driving ai.

Yeah thats pretty much what it is being use for now

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Or the other approach, make it even harder for humans

...which is the current trend.

I've found that a lot of sites use captchas or captcha-like systems as a means of frustrating users as a way of keeping away certain people that they don't want to access the site (intellectual property owners), though it's not the only tactic that they use. I mean it works, pretty much all of those sites are still up today, despite serving data that's copyrighted by Nintendo, Sony, and other parties.

New Captcha question: Does pressing a controller's button harder make the character's action more impactful?

if answer = yes : human

if answer = no : bot

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